Well it is time for some kind of obligatory post for Yule from GX40 HQ. Signs of the season seen today:

• LCBO line ups and emptying shelves. Panicy staff asking who had driven to the Bath and Gan stores looking for fluidy back-up.  Fortunately the Walnut Brown oloroso was there for grannie;
• The three year old boy of the house getting seriously freaked out out over the Santa and naugthy thing. He is convinced he is off the list. I am close to letting him know that the whole thing is a fraud put on by the eastern corporate establishment;
• Quiet roads first thing. Largely a half day in K'town so cruising about for last minute things listening to Guitar Picking Martyrs was quite pleasant - skip "Broken Fuckin' Heart" (track 5) if the kiddies are in the back row;
• Although Kingston is a military town and a university town like Halifax, the bars are dead. Must be a difference between army and navy. Co-worker happy happy joy joy pint o' Guinness was in an echo chamber with, oddly, M. Pied Lourd for a bartender.
• Fox Sport World Canada once again has that weird Egyptian indoor soccer championship - the Egypt International Futsal Tournament - on TV all through the dark days of mid-noon the 24th to the dawn of the 27th. Check here for soccer listings to get you through the entire bleak mid-winter.

So there you go. Happy Christmas to all you readers, to those who have done something worth writing about and to my favorite bloggers to the right - with special best wishes to the silverorange guys for providing the juice and space and the guys at Switching to Glide for running with that idea.